It was a half-hour children’s show. Rogers began his show The Children’s Corner in 1953 on a PBS station in the northeast part of the country. There Rogers developed many characters that would become famous. In 1967, his show went on the national TV stage, that remained there until ...
Mister Rogers' Neighborhoodwas an entertaining, educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001. He had puppets, characters, and plenty of A-list celebrity guests. Pre-schoolers, kindergarteners, and early elementary school-aged children couldn't wait to hang out with him an...
I frequently witnessed elementary school students on tours of the station and if they were lucky enough to see Rogers in the hallway, it was like they had seen God. The faces on those kids were absolutely indescribable. He made their entire year. I could imagine their unbridled excitement whe...
Mr. Rogers didn’t just try to teach children important life lessons and the like, but he also produced a series of specials intended for parents called “Mister Rogers Talks to Parents About X”, where X was whatever the topic of the day was. These shows were meant to help parents be ...
Rogers becomes fascinated by the stock market and sets his sights on a finance major at Penn-Wharton in Philadelphia. He closely follows the market all through college, gradually developing abilities, such as how to deconstruct a company’s financials and analyze its prospects. As an exceptional ...
while at the same time noting that"it's not a complex portrait"of Mr. Rogers, adding that"it's impossible to make a deep documentary"when the personalities of puppet characters like King Friday XIII and Lady Elaine reveal more about Fred's shortcomings as a human being than most of the ...
When Fred Rogers returned to the United States to embark on a revised version of that show, now titledMr. Rogers Neighborhood, Coombs stayed in Toronto and created the Mr. Dressup character for another lavish CBC kid series entitledButternut Square. ...
“You’re gonna love it,” says one of the show’s human characters, Gordon, to his wife Sally in the first show’s opening lines. And we have. Amanda Foreman Children Entertainment Jim Henson Mr. Rogers Punch and Judy Puppets Sesame Steet...
In 1953 Rogers moved back to Pennsylvania at the request of WQED, the nation’s first community-sponsored educational television station. One of the first programs he produced there was called “The Children’s Corner.” It was here that several of his original characters—which would later beco...
Jones tutors the cadets on how to detect a pickpocket. Luke becomes a game show contestant. Director Donald Shebib (as Don Shebib) Writers Paul Maslansky (original concept) | Gerald Sanoff (developed for television by) | Neal Israel (based on characters created by) | Pat Proft (based ...